The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-27
NO STRIKE AT READING.
A CONVENTION VOTES THAT THE
STRIKE IS ILL-ADVISED.

Confident of Victory.
READING, PA, Dec. 26-There will be
no strike of the Reading railroad
employees in this city. About $500
men are employed in all the conpanys
shops here They held meeting yesterday,
but came to no definite conclusion. An
other meeting was held this afternoon. 1t
lasted for some hours, and there was much
public speculation as to what would be
the result 1t has been known for
some days that there was a conservative
element in Reading who thought the strike
ill-advised and impracticable and not sus-
tained by public opinion. The convention
was composed of machinists, car shop
hands, car inspectors, blacksmiths, en-
gineers and men employed in every depart
ment of traffic on the Heading road and all
residing in this city.
DECIDED NOT TO STRIKE.
After a free expression of opinion it was
decided, by large majority, not to engage
In the strike, on the ground that it was pre-
mature, too hasty, and entirely local in its
character, and should have been confined
to Port Richmond alone. 1t was resolved
however, that if the managers of the strike
should order its continuance elsewhere, to
give 1t all the financial support possible.
General Manager Mcleod was promptly
| informed of the conventions action, and a
message containing the news few over the
wires tonight wherever there is a Knights
of Lahor assembly. Manager Mcleod re-
CARDS the action of the company's men re-
siding in Reading as a straw showing which
way the strike will turn, but everywhere
else so far the men remain solid for the
strike.
GETTING READY TO RESUME.
The officials here were busy to-day employ
ing men to move traffic tomorrow and
several hundred were shipped tonight to
various points where they will be needed in
the morning. The offic ais claim that they
have enough hands to have everything
working in few days. The er gines which
have been under guard since sunday are
being fired up tonight and will be taken
out in the morning to move the
$500 coal and freight cars which are lying
on sidings north and south of Reading A
number of cars which have been delayed
contain cattle and hogs, and number of
animals have been nearly frozen to death.
The latest tonight from near by points is
that the men there are still determined to
| remain out.
GLOOM AT PORT RICHMOND
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26.-Gloom over
spread Port Richmond to-day. The great
coal yards were silent and deserted. Long
lines of cars stood on the tracks, and gem
eral feeling of desolation pervaded the place.
At Trenton avenue and Ann, where the
round house stands. a number of men con-
gregated They watched hundreds of mo-
| tionless engines and cars and talked of
nothing but the strike. The Reading road
management was freely criticised, and
many declared that nothing could induce
them to return TO work.
THE OLD OFFER.
Representatives of the Lehigh Valley rail
road and the Lehigh Navigation Company
state that the same terms are now open to
their miners that have always been offered
| them, which is to resume work at the old
wages, and accept whatever advance the
market price of coal will warrant If work
should be stopped in the Schuyl-
| kill region, and the miners in
the Lehigh region shall resume, the
latter will, it is declared, receive consid-
erable advance upon the basis of pay, but
as the busy season of the anthracite coal
| trade is over, the Ilehigh miners cannot ex-
pect to realize such an advance as the
Schuylkill men have enjoyed since Septem-
| Der, amounting some months to as much as
81 per cent. over their 50 50 basis.
An officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad
! Company states that the Wyoming region
is amply able TO supply the anthracite mar
!
| ons both become idle. This can be done,
| it is stated, with perfect ease, as the busy
season in that trade has ended. As far as
| the Pennsylvania officials can see there is
no reason whatever for the scare, which
seems to exist concerning coal famine.
TO BE A LONG FIGHT.
| The latest developments indicate that the
strike will be long and bitter one and that
crisis will be reached tomorrow when the
order of General Manager Mcleod
goes into effect. ,oo COMMITTEES
composed of nachinlsts and car-builders
held d long conference with the executive
committee of the employees conven ion,
who met in Port Richmond this afternoon.
| The Reading men expressed themselves
as entirely satisfied with the jus
tice of the cause of the strikers
and promised their support, both financially
and otherwise to the full extent of their
means They will go out tomorrow. This
will be in obedience to the orders of the
committee issued at it's meeting tonight
! The Reading delegates think that the COM
panv should settle the strike by arbitra-
| ton, and they will make every effort to
bring about that end.
Besides Reading men, there were repre-
sented at to-night's conference a large num-
Der of representatives of local assemblies of
this city and other places on Reading lines.
Resolutions were adopted refusing to re-
sumo work until the men at Elizabethport,
Port Richmond and other places had been
re-instated and every 'scabn who filed
vacancy discharged.
| THE MAIN LINE MEN.
The main line men, who were present,
expressed great indignation at the method
the company has pursued, and think that,
after having served them so faithfully, they
are deserving of more consideration All
| the local Assemblies along the entire Read
ing line were notified that the men will I'M
der no circumstances return to work.
The Pennsylvania Railroad District
Assembly, No. 2l2, offered assistance
and refused to remove the freight OF the
| Reading company until the present diff
culties are satisfactorily settled. All the as
seniblieS connected with the Pennsylvania
railroad system viii give any assistance
asked for. and will not, they say, handle
anv freight hauled by the Reading company
In the event of ''scab' labor heing enl-
| Moved The strikers who, BY order
of Master W Workman Gleason took charge
of the company's property, after the strike
had been declared, have been recalled, their
places having been taken by the Pinkerton
police and coal and iron detectives from
various places along the road
INDoRsrNG THE ACTION.
A large number of Knights of Labor
assemblies have adopted resolutions
indorsing the action of to-niyhts